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Art Quotes
"Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information."
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"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward."
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"The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo."
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"I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music."
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"What music do you like? he asked between calls."Cheery, chirpy pop.Wincing, he pulled up a station that delivered exactly that. "You owe me."Come on-she turned in her seat to face him once more-"it's not that bad."I'm sorry? I can't hear you past the sugar blocking my eardrums."
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"It's clever but is it art?"
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"Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary."
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"There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections."
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"The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well."
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"One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'."
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"I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am."
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"Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language."
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"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work."
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"To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it."
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"Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different."
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"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."
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"Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"
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"Write about the emotions you fear the most."
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"Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion."
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"We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm."
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"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
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"I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there."
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"I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life."
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"In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love."
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"If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate."
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"After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?"
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"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature."
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"Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you."
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"Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned by his individual perception. It will be saved, if at all, by the next and last step of disillusion; the realisation that complete consciousness and truth are themselves valueless, and that to acquire any genuine artistic titillation we must artificially invent limitations of consciousness and feign a pattern of life common to all mankind--most naturally the simple old pattern which ancient and groping tradition first gave us."
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